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Burney MS 50/1
- Record Id:
- 041-002236492
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001788.0x00017d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100192109326.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 50/1
- Title:
- Apophthegmata Patrum (Collectio alphabetica), volume I of II
- Scope & Content:
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Apophthegmata Patrum (Collectio alphabetica), volume I of II, containing:
ff 2r-v, Iambic verses on the title of the text inc. f 5v. inc. Λειμὼν καλοῦμαι καὶ φράσω τὴν αἰτίαν.
ff 2v-3v, Ephraem the Syrian. extracts from De patientia et consummatione huius saeculi (TLG 4138.054; CPG 4007; cf. Asseman III, 101D-102C) and De panoplia, ad monachos (TLG 4138.113; CPG 4020; cf. Asseman III, 233C-234B).
ff 4r-5r, Joannes Moschus, prologue to the Pratum Spirituale (TLG 2856.001; PG 873.852; CPG 7376).
ff 5v-165v, Apophthegmata patrum(collectio alphabetica) (TLG 2742.001; PG 65.76; CPG 5560). Continued in Volume II.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236491
041-002236492 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 50 : Apophthegmata Patrum (Collectio alphabetica), in two volumes
Burney MS 50/1 : Apophthegmata Patrum (Collectio alphabetica), volume I of II - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0050]/040-002236491[0001]/041-002236492
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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165 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100192109326.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1361
- End Date:
- 1362
- Date Range:
- 1361-1362
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 165.
Collation: i-iii8 (ff 1-24), iv8-1, the sixth leaf cancelled (ff 25-31), v-x8 (ff 32-79), xi8-1, the seventh leaf cancelled (ff 80-86), xii8 (ff 87-94), xiii8-1, the seventh leaf cancelled (ff 95-101), xiv-xxi8 (ff 102-150).
Dimensions: 285 x 200 mm.
Ruling: 205 x 120 mm. Leroy 30D1(?), 29 lines.
Binding: 18th century, gold tooled russian leather.
Scribe (vol. I ff 2r-160v, 163v-165v; vol. II ff 1r-11v, 12v-13r, 15r-24r, 25r-174v, 176r-179r) ᾽Ιωάννης Φιλάγριος (colophon, vol. II f. 179r; inscription vol. I f 2r; Repertorium 1A, no. 187).
Decoration: Braided headpiece in brown, yellow and black (f 2r). Other brown headpieces with geometric, braided or foliate decoration (ff 4r, 5v, 53v, 95r, 133v). Thin simple brown headpieces or endpieces (ff 2v, 42v, 65v, 86r, 108r (also with black), 115r, 131r, 150v). Large and small brown or brown and yellow initials, some decorated with foliate forms, one with a hand (f 105v). Brown knots.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Crete).
Provenance:
Mostly written by Ioannes Philagrios in Crete for Georgios of Chandax (colophon, vol. II, f 179r).
Marginal annotations by Neilos Damilas (vol. II, ff 7v-125r, cf. Repertorium 1A, no. 293).
Table of contents (vol. II, ff 174v-175r) and profuse 17th century annotations added throughout.
Emmanouel Kallonas (second half of the 17th century inscription, vol. I, f 1r).
Partial Greek inscription dated 2 March 1681 (vol. I, f 1r).
Richard Mead (b. 1673, d. 1754), physician and collector of books and art: bequeathed to Askew.
Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 566, bought by Hayes.
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.
Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.
- Administrative Context:
- Eastern Mediterranean (Crete).
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, pp. 15-18.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 35 (1884) pp. 314-350, 584 (p. 341).
Palaeographical Society, Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, Series I and II, ed. E. A. Bond, E. M. Thompson and G. F. Warner, London 1873-1901, I, pl. 207.
E. M. Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography, Oxford 1912, p. 263 (facs.).
C. Van de Vorst and H. Delehaye, Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum Graec-orum Germaniae, Belgii, Angliae (Subsidia Hagiographica 13), Brussels 1913, pp. 260-261.
C. Butler, The Lausiac History of Palladius (Texts and Studies, ed. S. A. Robinson, 6), Cambridge 1904, II, p. xv, no. 26.
J. C. Guy, Recherches sur la tradition grecque des Apophthegmata Patrum (Subsidia Hagiographica 36), Brussels 1962, pp. 221-230.
A. Turyn, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Italy, Urbana 1972, pp. 253-54.
G. Papazoglou, ᾽Ιωσὴφ Φιλάγριος ἢ Φιλαργης, Thessalonica 1978, passim.
A. Turyn, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain, Dumbarton Oaks 1980, pp. 128-129, pls 85, 86, 120b, 120c.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 37.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)